Monthly Archives: June 2012

Award-winning novelist (Across a Hundred Mountains) Grande captivates and inspires in her memoir. Raised in Mexico in brutal poverty during the 1980s, four-year-old Grande and her two siblings lived with their cruel grandmother after both parents departed for the U.S. in search of work. Grande deftly evokes the searing sense […]

Author Reyna Grande’s Memoir Gets Starred Review in Publishers Weekly

June 16, 2012 in Reyna Grande by STAFF

Around Cape Ann Gail McCarthy Canada’s “Queen of the Blues” comes to Gloucester Friday night to screen a film about a blues pilgrimage down U.S. Route 61 that led her to a state prison in Louisiana. What Rita Chiarelli discovered there led to the creation of a documentary that she […]

Around Cape Ann Canada’s-Blues Queen in Local Visit

June 7, 2012 in Uncategorized by STAFF

Fox 23 News Interviews Rita Chiarelli

June 5, 2012 in Rita Chiarelli by STAFF

Filmed at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, “Music From the Big House,” Bruce McDonald’s loosely built documentary, yields the cognitive dissonance of being entertained by performers convicted of rape, murder and other offenses. The Canadian blues singer Rita Chiarelli acts as our ambassador to a realm of life sentences and strained […]

Playing the Blues While Inside Prison Walls

June 5, 2012 in Rita Chiarelli by STAFF

St.Vincent Meals on Wheels – A Little Bit of Italy ...

June 1, 2012 in Saint Vincent Meals On Wheels by STAFF

On Tues. June 12, Lucy’s El Adobe, long a watering hole for political and entertainment industry figures, will extend a muy caliente “Bienvenidos” to St. Vincent Meals on Wheels supporters and amigos. Owner Lucy Casado, whose Mexican eatery on Melrose across from Paramount Studios has over the years nurtured many a […]

Garden Party At Lucy’s To Benefit SVMOW

June 1, 2012 in Saint Vincent Meals On Wheels by STAFF